Morning Report

The Far North coped another burst of heavy rain overnight. MetService placed a weather alert for the region - the eighth this year.

Kaikohe and the Whangarei Heads were on the receiving end of the… Read more Audio

The OCR hike and latest poll as the election approaches are major talking points this week.

Questions remain for National's tax plan and use of AI marketing images, and Labour's conference kicks off… Read more Audio

The Central Pulse host the Northern Stars this weekend in the elimination final of the ANZ Premiership.

The winners will move on to next week's final against the Auckland Mystics.

RNZ's netball… Read more Audio

Florida's Republican governor Ron DeSantis has entered the race for the presidential election, and will likely go up against former US president Donald Trump.

The first 20 minutes of his clunky… Read more Audio

How can artificial intelligence be monitored heading into October's election? And who should monitor fake news and augmented images?

The questions come after the National Party has admitted to using… Read more Audio

The investigation into the Alan Hall miscarriage of justice case has exonerated crown lawyers of any wrong doing.

The Supreme Court last year cleared Mr Hall of the 1985 murder of Arthur Easton and… Read more Audio

Labour says this year's Budget was simply "not the time" to overhaul Working for Families - but it has promised to spell out its plan before the election.

The Government put the multi-billion dollar… Read more Audio

More than 120 firefighters and 30 trucks were sent to Surrey Hills in Sydney at about 6pm NZT, when flames erupted from within the multi-storey former hat factory.

It sparked chaotic scenes in the… Read more Audio